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I'm a writer and editor from the Wirral, just a 20-minute Mersey Ferry away from Liverpool, England. Since I was a kid I always wanted to write for magazines and consumer publications. My first break in newsstand publishing came in 2007 when I took a job at Future Publishing. For the next eight years I contributed to over 30 popular print magazines and online brands before choosing a freelance career in 2013.

I like to read up on all sorts of topics, and occasionally write fiction whenever I get inspired by a good novel. I'm also a keen runner and completed the Bath half-marathon in 2013, raising £1,000 for Rape Crisis in the process. As the photo suggests, I'm also a bit of an LFC fan, although oddly I've been to Camp Nou more times than I've been to Anfield.

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Bragi announced its Dash earphones at CES way back in 2015, when wireless Bluetooth headsets were still relatively niche. Since then we’ve seen Apple, Samsung, and a host of other companies launch their own “truly wireless” headphones, prompting Bragi to give the market another pop with “The Headphone” ($149), a less expensive, more awkwardly named variant of its original cord-free buds.

Announced last September two days before the Apple iPhone 7 event, The Headphone only began shipping in January, so Bragi has had plenty of time to iron out any last-minute kinks. Not that there should be any. The Headphone buds are a lot less ambitious than the Dash.

They don’t have touch-sensitive controls, for one. Bragi has also done away with the internal music player, heart-rate monitoring and fitness tracking features found in the company’s original wireless buds. Are they susceptible to the same connection problems that initially befell the Dash? And how do they compare against Apple’s AirPods? I sought to find out over on MacRumors.

Headphone jack controversies aside, Apple’s cord-free AirPods have contributed to a recent surge of interest in “truly wireless” earphones, with several companies vying for a piece of the market. Denmark-based […]